Monday, 30 July 2007

Its not exactly a new article but I just wanted to point this to everyone who writes code for the web. Some of your concepts about XHTML pages will certainly be squashed, I know mine were. I’ve been serving my pages as valid HTML ever since I read this back in September 2006.

Friday, 27 July 2007

Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

She also reveals that Harry and Ron sort of take control of the Auror department and Hermione ends “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She hasn’t however told us who the new headmaster and DADA teacher are. (Via MuggleNet)

I know I’m a little late in reporting this, but what a race it was! Lewis Hamilton had a good start and thanks to the two BMWs colliding with each other, he was 4th at one point after starting from 10th. Then the track turned into a stream as it started raining heavily and cars were just flying out of the track, especially at turn one. It was quite funny to watch really. Then there was the red flag, yet another technical fault with Ferrari and Alonso overtaking Massa when we thought the race was over. All in all, a great race.

Thursday, 19 July 2007

I’d like to ask everyone who calls themselves a Potter fan to help preserve the secrecy of the plot for all those who are looking forward to reading the book at the same time on publication day. In a very short time you will know EVERYTHING!

Please please please don’t spoilt the book for us if you already know what’s going to happen, its totally uncool. We’ve waited for a long time for the seventh book and we deserve to find out things the way Jo intended us to. (Via MuggleNet)

Sunday, 15 July 2007

Saturday, 14 July 2007

After competing with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative with their own $200 ‘Classmate’ machine, Intel seems to have finally been hit in their head and told to “do the right thing”. This is good news indeed for OLPC. Now, if only someone would hit the Indian government in their head and tell them to “do the right thing”…
(Also on Macworld)

Monday, 9 July 2007

Jo recently appeared on the Jonathan Ross show and at one point said two characters who were originally going to survive through the end are now going to die. She then said this doesn’t mean that only 2 characters die in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – its going to be a bloodbath! Well that’s not very surprising but hearing it from her seals the deal. She also said that there’s a chapter towards the end, finishing which made her “absolutely howl”. Did she kill Harry? Was it Ron, Hermione or all three? Eleven days before we find out. There’s also a Dumbledore’s Army scence from the OoTP movie in the linked video. (Via MuggleNet)

Welcome to my Webmarks list. Ever so often I come across a webpage which I want to tell people about. Emailing the link to friends works just fine but that has a limited reach. So, here’s my attempt at a ‘Webmarks’ list. Don’t worry, its not going to be a blind copy of whatever goes on Gruber’s Linked List, I’ll shuffle some words before copying ;-).